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Acquired

AI Landscape Designer

Built, scaled and sold via Acquire.com

Built it, grew it to 4,000 users, and ran the sale through to handover.

Type AI Product — Acquired
Context Salinash Studio
Date 2023
Role Founder, Engineering, Growth, Exit
/ Outcomes
4,000 Users reached
Acquired Sold via Acquire.com
Build → exit Full lifecycle owned solo

AI Landscape Designer was an AI-powered product for designing outdoor spaces. It went from build to launch to 4,000 users, and then to an acquisition through Acquire.com.

The growth came from Reddit community marketing and SEO rather than paid acquisition — finding the people already discussing the problem and being useful in those threads.

/ Deliverables
  • AI product build & launch
  • SEO and community growth
  • Acquisition diligence
  • Infrastructure handover
/ Role
  • Founder, Engineering, Growth, Exit
  • Salinash Studio
  • Acquired

What made this hard

A new AI product has no distribution. Paid acquisition against an unproven retention curve is the fastest way to spend money on nothing.

Selling a software business is its own project: diligence, transfer of infrastructure and accounts, and a handover the acquirer can actually operate.

How it was built

/ 01

Community-first distribution

Growth ran through Reddit communities where the problem was already being discussed, compounded by SEO — channels that keep returning traffic after the work stops.

/ 02

Owned the full lifecycle

Build, launch, growth and exit were all in-house. No handoffs meant the product could be changed the same week a growth experiment said it should be.

/ 03

Ran the sale and handover

The sale was run through Acquire.com, including diligence and a handover that left the acquirer able to operate the product independently.

What it runs on

TypeScriptReactAI/ML APIsSEOAcquire.com
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